If you’re not a member of the PGA Tour, playing next to a real live pro in a televised tournament can trigger the jitters. Unless you’ve had to snap a football between your legs in front of 80,000 people. “Let me tell you something, brother, that’s pressure because nobody knows your name until...

The tournament that Tiger Woods launched 10 years ago remained on next season's PGA Tour schedule. Still to be determined is where — and if — it is held. Quicken Loans has not renewed as title sponsor, and the PGA Tour felt it had no choice but to opt out of its contract to play at Congressional...

The local guy stepped up, even though he didn’t know it right away. When Stewart Hagestad of Newport Beach defeated previously unbeaten Jack Singh Brar 2 and 1 at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course on Sunday afternoon, he assured that the United States would win back the Walker Cup from Britain....

Lexi Thompson celebrated in the most traditional Indy style. She sipped some milk, poured the rest over her head and, of course, sealed it with a kiss of the bricks. The 22-year-old Florida player earned it. After dazzling fans with two days of almost error-free golf, Thompson overcame some late...

Justin Thomas added another big title to a season filled with big moments by outlasting Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman on the back nine of the TPC Boston to win the Dell Technologies Championship. Two shots behind at the turn, Thomas surged ahead with a short birdie and a 6-foot par save while...

It wasn't the best shot Tiger Woods hit all week. It might have been the most telling. He had 271 yards to the par-5 third hole at Albany Golf Club, a tropical breeze working against him. Woods went with a 2-iron. He held nothing back on the swing and then quickly recoiled the club as he watched...

Rickie Fowler was the first player to offer a scouting report on Tiger Woods ahead of his celebrated return to golf, hinting that Woods was hitting it "way by" him in some of their matches in Florida. Fowler's own game apparently was in pretty good shape, too. Seven shots behind to start the final...

Charley Hoffman handled the blustery conditions for a five-shot lead in the Hero World Challenge as Tiger Woods fell 10 shots behind. The wind was the strongest it has been all week at Albany Golf Club, and it showed in the scores Saturday. Hoffman had a 2-under 70 that matched the best score of...

Tiger Woods looked a lot better in his return to golf than he did when he left. Playing for the first time since his fourth back surgery, Woods returned from a 10-month layoff with a 3-under 69 on a breezy Thursday in the Bahamas that left him three shots behind Tommy Fleetwood after the opening...

Tiger Woods is playing the Hero World Challenge this week, making it the 10th time he has returned from layoffs of 10 weeks or longer. The most recent layoff was caused by fusion surgery on his lower back, his fourth back surgery since March 2014. Woods only started taking full swings two months...

We will indulge memories as long as they stay where we left them. When we left Tiger Woods, the golfer, he was winning the 2008 U.S. Open on a broken leg and torn ACL, in sudden death on the 91st hole, as courageous and foolish a feat as ever in sports. His legend could have stopped there, maybe...

Jack Nicklaus has won more majors, but Tiger Woods is the PGA Tour’s all-time tease. Woods will attempt to make another professional comeback Nov. 30 at the event he hosts, the Hero World Challenge. He will join Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day in the 18-player field in the Bahamas. ...

Tiger Woods pleaded guilty Friday to reckless driving in a deal that will keep him out of jail as long as he stays out of trouble, resolving charges from an arrest last spring in which he was found passed out in his Mercedes with prescription drugs and marijuana in his system. Woods spoke only...

After playing golf from age six to 12, including a sixth grade season of high school play when she attended Lake Mary Prep for one year, Jenny Kim briefly lost interest in the sport as she hit her teen years. “I don’t think I was burned out, but I wasn’t practicing much at all,” Kim said of her...

First-year Windermere High School won a district championship for the first time in school history when its boys golf team claimed the Class 3A, District 7 tournament on Tuesday at Forest Lake Golf Club. The Wolverines posted a 296 team total to win by nine shots over runner-up Dr. Phillips. Louis...

Tiger Woods is swinging a driver without pain, and his agent says doctors have cleared him to practice without limitations. Still to be determined is when Woods can play in a tournament. "We haven't even addressed when he comes back to play again. We have not addressed one thing," said Mark Steinberg,...

The First Academy girls golf team ran away with the team title and Lake Mary Prep’s Jennifer Zhou won the individual championship at the prestigious Honda Classic High School Invitational in south Florida on Saturday. Zhou, followed up her opening round 72 with a 3-under-par 69 for a 141 total...

Lake Mary Prep is coming off of three straight state championships, but with roster changes coming into the fall season, second-year coach Mike Jamison wasn’t sure how his new group would turn out. The Griffins have answered any concerns with continued dominance in the regular season. “We were coming...

It’s almost time for varsity golf district tournaments, which means it’s time to take a look at some of the top area schools heading into postseason play. The Orlando area is home to defending state champions, freshman phenoms, and a player who just broke a record held by Jordan Speith. On the boy’s...

Three-time defending Class 1A girls golf state champ Lake Mary Prep remained undefeated for the season with a 144-158 win on Tuesday against The First Academy (18-2). But the Griffins will be missing two of of their top players when they face an elite field at this weekend’s Honda Classic High...

Lake Mary Prep defeated Lake Nona by a 148-168 score in a Wednesday afternoon girls golf match that featured two of last season’s three individual state champions. Mimi Chen, the 1A state medalist as a ninth grader for LMP in 2016, shot a 38 at Timacuan Golf Club to help the three-time defending...

The First Academy junior Sophie Guo carded a 5-under-par 67 as the Royals rolled to victory in their own TFA Invitational on Wednesday at Grand Cypress Golf Club. TFA’s Taylor Zeng was runner-up with a 73 as the Royals totaled 294 strokes as a team to win by 29 shots over second place Circle Christian....

When it comes to girls’ golf, Lake Mary Prep is usually shooting for a state championship. A year after winning their third consecutive Class 1A state title, the Griffins show no signs of slowing down. Four starters are back for a lineup featuring defending state champion Mimi Chen, reigning state...

Dustin Johnson faced long odds all day against Jordan Spieth until the longest drive led to an unlike playoff victory Sunday in The Northern Trust. Johnson rallied from a five-shot deficit on the front nine. And on the final hole in regulation, after one of the most powerful players in golf chose...

Michelle Wie was set to have surgery Sunday to remove her appendix. Wie withdrew before the final round of the Canadian Pacific Women's Open and was taken to Ottawa Hospital for the surgery. "Further details on her condition will be provided when available," her agency, IMG, said in a statement....

Jordan Spieth put together another back nine filled with birdies and built a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Northern Trust. Spieth seized control with three straight birdies starting on the 14th hole at Glen Oaks Club in Old Westbury, N.Y. He shot 31 on the back nine for a six-under-par...

The Georgia company that owns Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters golf tournament on Monday asked a judge to stop a golf memorabilia company from auctioning off a Masters champion's green jacket and other items it says were never supposed to have left the club's grounds. Augusta National...

Kevin Kisner survived a calamitous finish at the PGA Championship thanks to a good bounce off a bridge that allowed him to escape with a bogey and take a one-shot lead into the final round at Quail Hollow. Kisner already gave up a two-shot lead with a shot into the water on the 16th hole. He nearly...

Hideki Matsuyama and Kevin Kisner faced the toughest Quail Hollow had to offer and share the lead in the PGA Championship going into the weekend of the year's final major. Odds are Quail Hollow won't be the same test the rest of the way. Clouds quickly gathered Saturday morning about the time some...

Tiger Woods will not attend his arraignment Wednesday on a driving under the influence charge, his attorney said, meaning under court rules the superstar golfer will be pleading not guilty. Attorney Douglas Duncan said in an email Tuesday to The Associated Press that Woods will not be attending...

Jordan Spieth is going for a career Grand Slam at the PGA Championship and doesn't appear to have a care in the world. Rory McIlroy hasn't won a major in three years and expectations are higher than ever. Blame that on Quail Hollow. This is where McIlroy won his first PGA Tour event in 2010 when...

Players are allowed to wear shorts during practice rounds at the PGA Championship. That won't be necessary in two years when it moves to May. The PGA of America is moving its major championship to May for the first time in 70 years when it goes to Bethpage Black on New York's Long Island in 2019...

Charley Hoffman birdied the final hole for a seven-under-par 65 on Saturday at Glen Abbey in Oakville to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the RBC Canadian Open. The 40-year-old Hoffman had six birdies in a seven-hole stretch that ended on No. 15, bogeyed the par-4 17th and rebounded...

Jordan Spieth was standing at the edge. Not just the edge of a steep hill overlooking the 13th hole at Royal Birkdale — the result of a drive that sailed 100 yards wide right — but the edge of another meltdown in a major championship, this time the British Open. How he escaped to lift the Claret...

As well as he’s playing, Jordan Spieth could have a grip adjustment in his future. He’s one good Sunday away from wrapping his hands around the Claret Jug. Spieth shot a 5-under-par 65 on Saturday to create some distance from the field at 11 under heading into the final round of the British Open...

Branden Grace was playing in the daylight — good weather, at last — and the dark. The South African had no idea that he was headed for history Saturday, that his eight-birdie round of 62 in the British Open was the lowest ever in a major championship. As a result, Grace went from ho-hum to history....

With a chance to close out the match, Jordan Spieth fired his second shot into the par-5 15th at Royal Birkdale and it never left the flag, bounding onto the green about 20 feet behind the hole. His partner Tuesday was Justin Thomas, who watched the flight of the ball and said, "I like having him...

Sung Hyun Park gave away the U.S. Women's Open a year ago with a couple of bad rounds on the weekend. The South Korean didn't make the same mistake this year. Park shot her second consecutive five-under-par 67 on Sunday and won a final-round battle with front-running Shanshan Feng and teenage amateur...

Third-round leader Patrick Rodgers knew that it would take a ton of birdies Sunday to win the John Deere Classic. Bryson DeChambeau took that advice to heart. DeChambeau overcame a four-stroke deficit to beat Rodgers by a stroke for his first PGA Tour title — and a spot next week in the British...

Shanshan Feng is going to have the president of the United States looking over her shoulder in the final round of the U.S. Women's Open, and probably a lot of South Korean fans, too. The 27-year-old from China rolled in a short birdie putt on the final hole Saturday to take a one-shot lead after...

Firestone Country Club will honor the late golf legend Arnold Palmer by naming a stone bridge after him at the signature 16th hole he dubbed "The Monster." The Akron Beacon Journal reports the Arnold Palmer Bridge will be dedicated with a plaque Aug. 2 before the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone...

Shanshan Feng opened a two-shot lead Friday after two rounds of a U.S. Women's Open that got its first visit from a sitting president. Fresh from a Bastille Day celebration in Paris, President Donald Trump pulled into his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., around 3:40 p.m., visited his...

Hootie Johnson, the South Carolina banker and Augusta National Golf Club chairman who stubbornly stood his ground amid pressure for the club to invite female members, died Friday morning. He was 86. Augusta National announced his death and celebrated the sweeping changes to the Masters during his...

Rookie Xander Schauffele made a three-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday to win the Greenbrier Classic in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., by a stroke over Robert Streb for his first PGA Tour victory. Schauffele closed with a three-under-par 67 and finished at 14-under 266 to cap a daylong...

PGA Tour rookie Sebastian Munoz has found a comfortable routine at the Greenbrier Classic — go play golf, then watch a movie at night. After catching “Ferris Bueller's Day Off” following an opening-round 61, Munoz kept it going Friday, shooting a three-under-par 67 for a three-stroke lead over...

When Danielle Kang won the U.S. Women's Amateur in 2010 and 2011, her father, K.S. was her caddie. K.S. died in 2013 after a battle with brain and lung cancer, but as Danielle closed in Sunday on her first LPGA win, she felt her dad beside her once again. "I always looked at my dad like he was...

Tiger Woods is receiving help to manage his medications. “I'm currently receiving professional help to manage my medications and the ways that I deal with back pain and a sleep disorder,” Woods said in a statement on Monday night. “I want to thank everyone for the amazing outpouring of support...